Nature abhors a vacuum. The oral traditions of Africa, especially the ones we have in West Africa today, have created an intellectual vacuum. They have little written about them. For that reason their logic remain unclear.
Their processes are vague and the rituals persist without proper theorization. Consequently, what has happened is that this “vacuum of the mind” has sucked in everything from its surroundings like a vacuum does: and with the debris has come virulent forms of western liberalism and the philosophies of the Bible.
The ancient adage that “the devil finds work to do with idle hands,” is made perfect in the intellectual vacuum left behind by the evacuation of written culture and the works that written culture produces. With no proper and general institution of the theories on ancient African’s written cosmogonies, students in West Africa, who are now thought leaders, presidents and ministers of state, have no reference when the reach into that vacuum. Instead, what they find are the debris imbibed naturally by the logical nature of such a vacuum. Students in Africa find debris like “biblical philosophy” or “western liberalism” or “individualism” or “western liberal human rights.”
For example, when the thought leaders of Ghana come into contact with a country now called Israel, whether its links with the ancient Hebrew civilization of West Asia are real or imagined, it remains impossible that these leaders will ask any real questions about the imposters: The written philosophy of the ancient Hebrew has replaced the oral African philosophy in the hearts and minds of our elite. They see today’s imposters of “Israel” as an embodiment of that philosophy. They have sucked in the nonsense—not by being forced by others to do so against their will, but by the sheer, natural force of suction that results from a vacuum. Israel is their God, and whatever they say is Godly, whether our elite like it or not.
In the absence of elevating ancient African philosophies to the newer traditions of written work—the result of intellectual laziness of the African elite—the devil has created his workshop in the hearts and minds of the elite. They freely indulge in the habits of devil worship without being aware of them. Nature abhors a vacuum, and that intellectual vacuum continues to suck in all the debris it can muster.
